Vegetable Crop Pests You Need to Know

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 (snow date February 17th) from 1-4 PM

Presented by Jude Boucher and Joan Allen of UConn Extension

Fairfield County Extension Center
69 Stony Hill Road
Bethel, CT 06801

1. Alliums: onion thrips, onion maggots, purple blotch
2. Asparagus: Common and spotted asparagus beetles, Fusarium wilt, cutworms, rust
3. Basil: downy mildew, Japanese beetles
4. Brassica: Imported cabbage worm, diamondback moth, cabbage looper, cross-striped cabbageworm, black rot, cabbage maggots, flea beetles, Alternaria leaf spot, cabbage aphids
5. Chenopods: Cercospora leaf spot, flea beetles, leafminers
6. Cucurbits: powdery and downy mildew, black rot, Plectosporium, Phytophthora blight, striped cucumber beetles/bacterial wilt, squash vine borer, squash bug
7. Legumes: potato leaf hopper, cutworms, seedcorn maggots, Damping-off, white mold, rust, Mexican bean beetle, caterpillars (CEW, CL, ECB), Anthracnose, Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB)
8. Lettuce: aphids, slugs, wirestem, tarnished plant bug
9. Solanaceous: early and late blight, Septoria leaf spot, Anthracnose ripe rot, bacterial canker, Phytophthora Blight, bacterial leaf spot, Colorado potato beetle, potato and green peach aphids, flea beetles, Verticillium wilt, BMSB, two-spotted spider mites, tomato/tobacco hornworm
10. Sweet corn: corn earworm, fall armyworm, European corn borer, Northern corn leaf blight, BMSB
11. Umbelliferae: Alternaria leaf spot, carrot weevil, tarnish plant bug

Commercial vegetable crop growers may receive 2 Pesticide Credits (pending DEEP approval)

Pre-registration is suggested. To register call 203-297-2249 or visit http://fcaec.org. Registration fee of $20 to be paid at the door by check or cash.

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